Truth & truthfulness : an essay in genealogy /

Truth & truthfulness : an essay in genealogy /

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Author / Creator:Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003, author.
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Description:1 online resource (xi, 328 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Truth.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Truth.
Truthfulness and falsehood.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11102083
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Varying Form of Title:Truth and truthfulness
ISBN:9781400825141
1400825148
0691102767
9780691117911
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-320) and index.
Print version record.
Summary:What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer these questions than Bernard Williams. Writing with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity, he explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and skepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness.
Other form:Print version: Williams, Bernard Arthur Owen. Truth & truthfulness. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2002

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